Dirk Muller had to do a little extra work to score Tafel Racing's
Ferrari a second straight GT2 victory with Dominik Farnbacher, holding off Flying Lizard Motorsports' Wolf Henzler and his Porsche 911 GT3 RSR by 0.102secs. The result wasn't decided until the final corner as the two cars started on their final lap just before Werner took the chequered flag.
The two cars were nose-to-tail for the entire final lap and were joined by the #46 Flying Lizard Porsche of polewinner Patrick Pilet, who finished third in class with Johannes van Overbeek. The finish was the second-closest finish in the history of the American Le Mans Series and the tightest in GT2.
"The car was fantastic," Muller said, "It was a gamble not taking tyres, and the safety car helped make it a close end. The five years of really hard driving in touring car racing really helped me. The racing line was quite wide. It was possible to do off line racing and give room for overtaking."
The difference was pit strategy. Both the Lizard cars took tyres during their lone pit-stop while the Tafel car elected to run the full race on one set of Michelins. Tafel saved 7.362secs on the pit-stop and it proved crucial.
"I drove easy to try and save the tyres for Dirk," Farnbacher said, "I tried to simply stay with the pack until my drive was over."
